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Setting safety standards by designing a low-budget and compatible patient identification system based on passive RFID technology.

Thuemmler, Christoph; Buchanan, William J; Kumar, Vinoth

Authors

Christoph Thuemmler

Vinoth Kumar



Abstract

This paper outlines a large-scale audit for the enhancement of quality of care and staff and patient safety using passive RFID (Radio Frequency ID) wrist bands, which link to a patient's database, in order to reduce errors in patient care. It has been developed with a collaboration between the University Hospital, Birmingham, UK and Napier University, UK. The key feature of the work is the usage of passive RFID tags as an integral part of a low budget out-of-the box strategic patient information system which should be compatible with most hospital IT systems.

Citation

Thuemmler, C., Buchanan, W. J., & Kumar, V. (2007). Setting safety standards by designing a low-budget and compatible patient identification system based on passive RFID technology. International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management, 8, 571-583. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJHTM.2007.013524

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date May 1, 2007
Deposit Date Jul 21, 2008
Publicly Available Date Jul 21, 2008
Print ISSN 1368-2156
Electronic ISSN 1741-5144
Publisher Inderscience
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 8
Pages 571-583
DOI https://doi.org/10.1504/IJHTM.2007.013524
Keywords Healthcare; Patient identification; Patient care enhancement; Patient information management; Passive tags; Radio Frequency Identification; RFID;
Public URL http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/1821
Publisher URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJHTM.2007.013524
Contract Date Jul 21, 2008

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